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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to commend the Minister for a clever answer. He has answered the questions so cleverly as to avoid certain fundamental issues, that should have received very concrete response. Before I raise a number of those issues, I want to affirm that, indeed, this whole picture, that the Minister has attempted so cleverly to camouflage, does not look prettier at all. It is an ugly picture. It is a picture that perpetuates a culture of impunity and abuse of due process. I insist that this process has been held hostage by wheeler-dealing in his July 16, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1851 Ministry of Energy and at the Treasury. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is absolutely no explanation why this whole process has mixed up two processes that are so clearly mutually exclusive. There is the process of the equity stake, held by the three private investors, namely, Chevron Global Energy Inc., Beyond Petroleum (BP) Plc and Shell Petroleum Company Limited. That is a completely private affair between those three private investors and any one else that may buy their stake. But then there is the public aspect; the public goodwill that any new entrant would have to acquire to become a partner in this process. But this whole process seems to have moved well until it landed at the Treasury, which must be the arena of impunity supreme. It is here that so many things have not been explained and the Minister has not explained. Let me, first of all, say that as a Member of this House, I have no quarrel or issues with any foreign investor that comes to this country, whether that investor is Indian or Libyan. Our concern is that this country must have a culture of due process where any investor that comes to this country can deal with us above board within the framework of due process, as per the rule of law. Firstly, what exactly is the status of this Tamoil of Libya, to the extent that it can stall a process that had gone so far?"
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